(Natural News) If sperm counts continue to fall at the current pace, humans could become extinct, a new report revealed. A team of researchers from the Hebrew University-Hadassah Braun School of Public Health and Community Medicine and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai analyzed the results of 185 studies involving nearly 43,000 men from America, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Asia, and Africa who provided semen samples between 1973 and 2011.
After evaluating the results, the researchers concluded that the concentration of sperm in the ejaculate of men in western countries has reduced by more than 50 percent in the last 40 years. Every year the sperm count drops by an average of 1.4 percent and the rate of decline is not slowing down.
“This is an urgent wake-up call for researchers and health authorities around the world to investigate the causes of the sharp drop in sperm count, with the goal of prevention,” said Dr. Levine, an epidemiologist and lead author of the study. “Decreasing sperm count has been of great concern since it was first reported 25 years ago. This shows the decline is strong and continuing,” added Dr. Swan, who was also involved in the study.
